OneGuyFromBarlick

I really really wanted to get in the shed to see if I have it right but as usual housework, washing, cooking and numerous other small outstanding tasks have kept me out. Not a lot of point going in this late so I shall be AWOL today! Before you start tutting.... who cleans your house and does the co...

Take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves. When we went for our walk this morning some yob had got a take-away meal complete with tray and had scattered the lot on the pavement on Railway Street. The tray was good quality, well made, heavy and brand new. I have rescued it and it c...

See THIS report in the Montreal Gazette about the chaotic end of the G7 summit. What's this got to do with UK politics? Remember Harold's dictum, "Events Dear Boy!" and recognise that this has enormous implications for Brexit and the much vaunted 'Special Relationship' with the US. What pr...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/8873/medium The engine at Dee Mill had been vandalised beyond redemption and I persuaded English Heritage that it should lose its Scheduled Monument status.... It took 18 months of evidence and argument but in the end they were reasonable an...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/17176/medium In 1930 William Ranson Ingoe would come into Rochdale via Whitworth and this view in 1979 is what he would have seen. Plenty of work! Every chimney was an opportunity. John Ingoe’s grandfather, William Ranson Ingoe came to Rochd...

The canal has been with us for 200 years and as it's transport role diminished with the rise of rail and road transport it has gradually become a forgotten corner apart from the interest in the mills for condenser water. What we forget is that when it was originally cut it completely altered the dra...

More settled dry weather yesterday and at 21:00 it was clear, calm, dry and mild. It was the same first thing this morning but by the time we went for our walk we had thick mist, you can't see more that 200 yards. Dead calm, dry and mild. For some reason someone has torn live branches out of young t...

'Hidden' on BBC4 started well last night, I shall stick with it......

Eisenhower was convinced that Monty could never accept the fact that he might be wrong. Beevor reckons this experience scarred him so much that it affected his attitude to Suez when he as President. He gives a lot of contemporary evidence to support his views.... I was always suspicious of him but p...

I remember a gardener once telling me that the best treatment in dry weather was hoeing with a Dutch Hoe, lets in the air and ambient moisture and kills weeds. I shall continue the work on my chuck jaws using what I learned yesterday...... One jaw perfectly free after much fiddling! https://www.oneg...

I went simple.... A cold Scotch Egg and HP sauce for dinner and a rump steak with peas and two fried eggs for tea..... Nuts and an apple for pudding.

Thanks to all of you..... It bothers me when they start drilling holes in my kid's heads......

Hard rock mining was definitely a transferable skill. Have a look in the LTP at the evidence of Horace Thornton and find the sons of ? (I've forgotten the name, it will come back to me!) While talking about Cowling he suddenly made a link with a large mine in Australia and took me by surprise. Yorks...

Walter Pitcher, a jeweller who had a shop in the Tommy Market at Oldham and shared our Anderson Shelter with us at Norris Avenue used to keep us occupied by making little animals out of candle wax during the air raids. Us kids tried it but we were nowhere near his standard!

Did any of you see the American bloke gentling the Dartmoor Pony on a recent episode of Victorian Farm. Fascinating and all about body language......

I haven't cheated...... Still clueless.

The dreaded sloppy mix......

Art must be the quintessence of meaning. Mary Vaux Warrick Fuller To find the low point of the history of racial lynching in the USA would be a hard task, and a grisly one, but a possibility is the lynching of Mary Turner in May 1918. She was one of 13 victims of a Lowndes County (Georgia) carnival ...

By the way..... Those Norton sticks have been sat in a box on the shelf for over 30 years and I have never used them for anything. This morning was what they have been waiting for all those years. Never pass up the chance for picking up something like that, whatever it is it will come into its own e...

https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/17175/medium P got me thinking this morning. If there is one lesson I have learned in a long experience with rectifying faults with machinery it is that the longest way round is often the shortest in the end. You can have a flash of inspirat...

The old waxed cardboard milk bottle caps were a useful bit of kit as well.....

Bit too complicated for me Kev. I'd just grab the salad cream bottle!

I agree with you Wendy. I watched about half of it and gave up because I thought they were bending the facts to support a hypothesis that they had started with.